A Classical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Principal Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors and Intended to Elucidate All the Important Points Connected with the Geography, History, Biography, Mythology, and Fine Arts. Together with an Account of Coins, Weights, and Measures, with Tabular Values of the SameHarper, 1890 - 1451 |
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... mountain by ancient writers , that of Abyla is the more common . The name is written by Dionysius ( Perieg . 336 ) , ' A2úbn . According to Avienus ( Ora Marit . 345 ) , Abila is a Carthaginian or Punic appellative for “ lofty mountain ...
... mountain by ancient writers , that of Abyla is the more common . The name is written by Dionysius ( Perieg . 336 ) , ' A2úbn . According to Avienus ( Ora Marit . 345 ) , Abila is a Carthaginian or Punic appellative for “ lofty mountain ...
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... mountains , and at each place the barrier is surmounted . The second cataract , in Turkish Nubia , is the most violent ... mountain ridges , one of which extends to the Red Sea , and the other terminates in the deserts of ancient Libya ...
... mountains , and at each place the barrier is surmounted . The second cataract , in Turkish Nubia , is the most violent ... mountain ridges , one of which extends to the Red Sea , and the other terminates in the deserts of ancient Libya ...
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... mountain , " given to Ætna on manner . Hence Galen , Cælius Aurelianus , Rhazes , account of its vast size , and recalling the remembrance and Avicenna , rank the plague among those complaints of the Arabian conquests in Sicily ...
... mountain , " given to Ætna on manner . Hence Galen , Cælius Aurelianus , Rhazes , account of its vast size , and recalling the remembrance and Avicenna , rank the plague among those complaints of the Arabian conquests in Sicily ...
Strona 68
... mountain to re- main unemployed in their mythological legends may easily be imagined , and hence the fable that Etna lay on part of the giant form of Typhon , enemy of the gods . ( Pindar , Pyth . , l . c . — Compare Eschylus , Prom ...
... mountain to re- main unemployed in their mythological legends may easily be imagined , and hence the fable that Etna lay on part of the giant form of Typhon , enemy of the gods . ( Pindar , Pyth . , l . c . — Compare Eschylus , Prom ...
Strona 73
... mountain called by the Greeks Atlas , and by the bar- barians Dyris : advancing thence towards the west , we see Cape Cotes , and afterward the city of Tinga , situate opposite to Gades in Spain . To the south of Tinga is the Sinus ...
... mountain called by the Greeks Atlas , and by the bar- barians Dyris : advancing thence towards the west , we see Cape Cotes , and afterward the city of Tinga , situate opposite to Gades in Spain . To the south of Tinga is the Sinus ...
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